I am wondering if i need wudu to read this quran as it is mostly english but still has a little quranic surahs in there. I also have another question, if i make dua, does it have to been like a surah ...

When I look up at the moon at night, it looks like a source of its own light just like the sun. surah 71:16 expresses this observation as:
And made the moon therein a [reflected] light and made the ...

As we know a common Muslim who is not a scholar is not allowed to interpret the Quran when he is reading it. He is not allowed to do anything he learn from the Quran without scholar's advice. He is ...

In the Quran Surah 13 verse 3, it stated "He it is Who has stretched out the earth and has placed in it firm mountains and has caused the rivers to flow. He has made every fruit in pairs, two and two, ...

Assalamu alaikum. I came up with a doubt when reading the answer from this website. It was an answer given by Dr. Zakir Naik.
Question: If Allah has sealed the hearts of the Kuffar i.e. non-Muslims,...

I want to understand verses of Quran. I an not good Arabic as I'm an Asian not generally aware about a Arabic. I can read Arabic because I have completed Quran Sharif. Please help really want to read ...

I actually have 3 questions. They are:-
First question: What is the meaning of the word سماء in the context
of the Qur'an?
Second question: Can the word سماوات be used as a replacement for the word ...

I was reading Yusuf Ali's English translation where he states for translation of Quran 8:11:
"Remember He covered you with a sort of drowsiness, to give you calm as from Himself, and he caused rain ...

Are the existing letter forms/shapes of the Arabic alphabet an essential part of the Qur'an, or are they an arbitary choice made by humans as a means to record the Qur'an?
In other words, if someone ...

I should like to learn Urdu, but I am having problems trying to find an online Urdu Qur'an -- I know of no other book that I can pick and be sure that most of the words are translated about as closely ...

This is the translation according to Sahih International:
"And We did not send before you any messenger or prophet except that when he spoke [or recited], Satan threw into it [some misunderstanding]. ...

"And when We decreed for Solomon death, nothing indicated to the jinn his death except a creature of the earth eating his staff. But when he fell, it became clear to the jinn that if they had known ...

I want to understand that why did Allah, may he be glorified and exalted, reveal Surah Fatiha in the first person. I had this doubt since some time but it developed more today when I read this as a so ...

Why Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala did not call our prophet (Sallallahu Alaihi wa Sallam) like "Ya Muhammad!..." in the Holy book Quranul Karim?
Is it okay to address with this if anything Allah Subhanahu ...

Salam.
I am developing an Android application (that's full free for any body in any country, and we publish it on Google play market to download) for Quran that need audio translation of Chinese and ...

I want to read the Qur'an cover to cover while supplementing it with historical, linguistic, and other Islamic cultural material as I read. However, I am not sure what the best combination of books is....

I have seen this more than a couple times now while reading the Quran. I will quote ayat 19 of surah 45 to help with my question, which is about the bolded part):
Verily, they can avail you nothing ...

And unto Allah (Alone) falls in prostration whoever is in the heavens and the earth, willingly or unwillingly, and so do their shadows in the mornings and in the afternoons. 13:15
http://quran.com/13/...

Please consider these 2 English translations of the same verse (Surat Al-Mā'idah 5/4).
They ask you, [O Muhammad], what has been made lawful for them. Say, "Lawful for you are [all] good foods and [...

We were studying the importance of the Arabic language and how Qur'an is the biggest proof of why Arabic is the best, and I saw a sentence in the book that confused me. It says that Qur'an mustn't be ...

Assalam aleykum.
... But if you are ill or on a journey or one of you comes from the place of relieving himself or you have contacted women and do not find water, then seek clean earth and wipe over ...